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There's practically zero connection to rust. trib.al/lkXwrdd
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Great news, Boston Dynamics made its own Simone Biles
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RIP Katherine Johnson (1918-2020). What a life: 🙏 One of the first African-American women to work at NASA. 🙏 Worked as a “human computer" for Mercury, Apollo, Shuttle programs 🙏 John Glenn requested she personally re-check computer calculations before his Friendship 7 mission
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More skunks can do handstands than we thought popsci.com/science/skunk-han…
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Female vampire bats regurgitate bloody dinners for their starving girlfriends popsci.com/vampire-bats-frie…
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Gotta love @NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory reacting to InSight’s touchdown on Mars. Those handshakes! #MarsLanding
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Humpback whales are organizing in huge numbers, and no one knows why popsci.com/humpback-whales-a…
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Forensic scientists caught a deer munching on a human carcass for the first time ever pops.ci/Y12ive
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You can actually be allergic to exercise bit.ly/2ff4i5f
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A photon checks into a hotel, and the desk clerk says "Can I get a bellhop for your bags?" Photon responds: "No need. I'm traveling light." More of our favorite science jokes: pops.ci/lol
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Warning: Do NOT get into a breath-holding contest with a naked mole rat bit.ly/2pbo9If
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Watch this octopus change colors as it dreams 🤯
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Congrats on inching toward the weekend like the ⭐️ that you are nitter.app/NatureSuperLit/status/…
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👀 MIT’s nine new Mini Cheetahs frolicking in fall leaves. Adorable or terrifying?
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Great tits are killing birds and eating their brains. Climate change may be to blame. pops.ci/killertits
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This is what America looked like before the EPA cleaned it up pops.ci/9fyMoU
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Watch Daisy Ridley swing a practice lightsaber po.st/nCDS4h
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A select few species of lobsters, bees, and tarantulas stick out. They also stretch the boundaries of physics. trib.al/OYTQkVW
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The force is strong w/ 3DSystems printers. They 3D printed this incredibly detailed stormtrooper @starwars #ces2016
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Happy 60th birthday to 'Calvin and Hobbes' creator Bill Watterson
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Your skin’s melanin can conduct electricity, and scientists want to harness it pops.ci/9t40qW
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Here’s what hand sanitizer actually kills. Pass it on. #COVID19
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#OnThisDay in 1934, the universe produced a collection of organic molecules called Carl Sagan ❤️
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😳 The @BostonDynamics robot dog can do the “running man” now (via @WIRED)
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Octopuses are not aliens, but boy are they a bunch of beautiful weirdos pops.ci/octopus-aliens
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We need to talk about giant beavers pops.ci/giantbeavers
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Sorry, cat haters, science isn’t on your side #NationalCatDay pops.ci/PmZWoB
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Good morning. What’s your favorite science or math joke?
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These scientists made 2,879 tiny clay caterpillars and hid them all over the world bit.ly/2rlAyuH
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Science has confirmed what we already knew: A pet’s death can hurt more than losing a fellow human pops.ci/petdeath #LoveYourPetDay
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Apple's new iPhone lineup pricing: iPhone 7 from $449 iPhone 8 from $599 iPhone XR from $749 iPhone Xs from $999 iPhone Xs Max from $1099 pops.ci/iphone2018 #AppleEvent
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49 years ago today…
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Giant panda snow party at the @NationalZoo!
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China's endangered 'magic rabbit' was photographed for the first time in 20 years: bit.ly/2lg2UzI
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How do you tell if your cold or flu is actually #COVID19? Use this chart as a handy guide to common symptoms for all three.
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👀 Boston Dynamics robots are organizing heavy warehouse boxes now
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Scientists grow full-sized, beating human hearts from stem cells pops.ci/Fs1Tke
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What are the smartest animals and how do we know? pops.ci/animal-iq
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Strutting woodcock! 💃🏼
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Every day is #EarthDay. On the modern environmental movement's 50th anniversary, here’s a running list of everyday actions you can take to help save the planet:
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Today, we're honoring the late #CarlSagan—who would have been 83 today. We can't think of anyone who inspired so many people to love science and the universe. #CarlSaganDay
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“SUL-SUL!” @TheSims’ language makes more sense than you think: pops.ci/simlish
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Women scientists you didn't learn about in school—but should have pops.ci/womeinscience #InternationalWomensDay
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Happy Birthday Stephen Hawking! The celebrated astrophysicist and cosmologist turns 76 years old today!
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Don't believe our planet is warming up? Look at this. bit.ly/2sXR4Sl
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👀 MIT’s new mini cheetah robot is the first four-legged robot to do a backflip
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Octopuses are not aliens, but boy are they a bunch of beautiful weirdos pops.ci/Octopus #CephalopodWeek
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This strange creature isn’t a spider or a dog, but it sure looks like both pops.ci/spiderdog
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We curated a list of anti-science tweets and had @BillNye respond to them with real science...he didn't hold back 🔥 🔥 🔥
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#OnThisDay in 1990, Microsoft released Windows 3.0. And for the first time, solitaire.
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.@NASA sees the shockwave of an exploding star for the first time pops.ci/S7lU54
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Women scientists you didn't learn about in school—but should have pops.ci/womeinscience #WomenInScience
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What are the smartest animals, and how do we know? pops.ci/animal-iq
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Light Photographed As A Wave And A Particle For The First Time popsci.com/light-photographe…
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Loving the signs we’re seeing today from #MarchForScience crowds around the world
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Exclusive: House Science Committee members just sent a letter to Trump insisting he stop relying on fake news pops.ci/nuBg7L
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Mathematicians finally found the perfect bubble blowing formula pops.ci/bubbles
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The 123,000 MPH Plasma Engine That Could Finally Take Astronauts To Mars popsci.com/technology/articl…
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Preventing deforestation might be expensive, but it will cost us more if we don't bit.ly/2nM6apo
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Today, we're celebrating the 150th birthday of one of the greatest female scientists who has ever lived. #OTD in 1867, Marie Curie was born.
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These videos from the #NewHorizons #PlutoFlyby are just jaw-dropping nitter.app/PopSci/status/62211173…
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A woman with sickle cell anemia had her genes edited to make normal functioning red blood cells. pops.ci/nBI0An
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Now you can buy gorgeous furniture made of mushrooms bit.ly/2lUEjEv
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He came all the way from Minneapolis (😱) to bring attention to the plight of the bees! 🐝#marchforscience @ScienceMarchDC
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Siberian unicorns lived alongside humans, and they were so much cooler than the mythical version popsci.com/siberian-unicorns…
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Four days into 2021✅. How's everyone doing?

ALT Baboon pushing laptop off a desk

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Should animals have the same rights as people? bit.ly/2l1YHml
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Listen to the very first sounds recorded on Mars pops.ci/marssound
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Happy 85th birthday, Dr. Jane Goodall! Her conservation organization, @JaneGoodallInst, has now protected more than 3 million acres of land to help preserve the homes of endangered wildlife.
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These skulls look purple and orange. They are both red. pops.ci/redskulls
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Replying to @TomCruise
We got you: pops.ci/tvsetup
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SanDisk just revealed a monster 1-terabyte SD card
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Yes, coffee drinkers seem to live longer. But don't get too excited. bit.ly/2ASMbyj
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U.S. unveils first new nutrition facts label in over 20 years po.st/aCRopk
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You can blow soap bubbles and instantly freeze them into ice orbs: bit.ly/2iOGrd6
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#OnThisDay in 1990, Microsoft released Windows 3.0. And for the first time, solitaire.
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You can't replace the F-35 with an F-18 any more than you can replace an aircraft carrier with a cruise ship: pops.ci/GgOdDb
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Are octopuses aliens? No, they're much weirder. #CephalopodWeek 🐙
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“We call it a rain-blow.” Instagram user dolphinsafaridom caught a whale "sneezing" a rainbow off the coast of San Diego 🌈 pops.ci/ad2BAV
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The 100 greatest innovations of 2018 pops.ci/BOWN
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These bowls suggest humans were already smoking weed by 420 BC pops.ci/bde68G
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This spider looks like a still from a science fiction movie. More of the year’s best photomicrography: pops.ci/microphoto
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These astronauts are preparing for life on Mars by living in Hawaiian lava tubes popsci.com/science/lava-tube…
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Scientists grow full-sized, beating human hearts from stem cells: bit.ly/2jz8TyQ
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A super tall air mattress for 50 percent off? I'd buy it. pops.ci/dUrelQ
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NASA’s Buckeye, the flying wing drone, flew for the first time last week pops.ci/zVf6yc
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Go ahead, marry your cousin—it’s not that bad for your future kids popsci.com/marrying-cousins-…
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🙏 Received Presidential Medal of Freedom from @BarackObama (pictured) 🙏 NASA named a new building after Johnson on the 55th anniversary of Glenn’s mission, since it would not have been possible without her 🙏 Portrayed in Oscar-nominated Hidden Figures by @TherealTaraji
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How to recycle shoes, crayons, toothbrushes, and other random stuff pops.ci/ofcTdw
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These skulls look purple and orange. They are both red. pops.ci/redskulls
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The most important science policy issue in every state: pops.ci/stateissues #VOTE
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We support everyone across the gender spectrum. If you're transphobic, please feel free to block. Thanks!
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EXCLUSIVE—@Marvel announces science, tech, engineering, art & math-devoted comic book covers po.st/RauDs8
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👀 A new surface adhesion developed in Beijing puts a gyrating spin on droplets
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Dogs aren't especially smart, but they have a particular set of skills pops.ci/9UU6t1
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A heartless sea creature could help us figure out why humans can't regenerate limbs bit.ly/2eztsOT
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🚫 Steve Jobs didn’t let his kids use iPads 🚫 Smoking is banned at the Reynolds American offices 🚫 Cherry Vanilla Dr Pepper’s developer calls soda “terrible” and “not good for your teeth" Insiders don't use their products like we do. That’s worrisome: pops.ci/insiders
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If Twitter had been around in Charles Darwin’s day, he would have been science’s one-liner king. To celebrate the iconic biologist’s 210th birthday, we turned his saddest, meanest, and funniest quotes into tweets. 👇
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